Files in this folder support the publication:

"Political Accountability and Democratic Institutions: An Experimental Assessment"
By Jos� Gabriel Castillo and John Hamman
Journal of Experimental Political Science

Files:

1) Raw data:
		data: data unified for general descriptive statistics
		data1: data for Single selection treatment
		data2: data for Multiple selection treatment
2) Program:
		program.do  : unifying program. 
			      This program reproduces the complete paper results. There is no need
			      to run the other two programs independently.
			      Some tables are compiled externally for stetics and easy exposition.
			      To run the code, write the computer's user name in row 12, and
			      the folder's computer location in row 13.
			      
		single.do   : program to obtain results from Single selection treatment.
		multiple.do : program to obtain results from Multiple selection treatment.

3) Results: 
		finalresults.txt : show the log file for runnig the code.

Variables description:

    contribution: points of each participant in the group accpunt by round.
      punishment: dummy to identify if participant receive punishment in each round.
punishmentpoints: points of punishment receive by round.
        puntreat: dummy to identify punishment treatment.
        demtreat: dummy to identify Democracy treatment.
           dddem: dummy to identify Diff in Diff (Punishment*Democracy).
        manager2: dummy to identify manager by round.
           woman: dummy to identify gender (1=woman).
          income: categorical variable to identify 5 income intervals.
       economist: dummy to identify economics and social sciences careers.
           edcom: dummy to identify communications careers.
            fcnm: dummy to identify natural and mathematical sciences careers.
             fcv: dummy to identify life sciences careers.
            fict: dummy to identify earth sciences careers.
            fiec: dummy to identify electrical engineering careers.
           fimcp: dummy to identify maritime and science of the marine careers.
         fimcbor: dummy to identify mechanical sciences careers.


Disclaimer and contact:
Any use of this data must be for scientific and non commercial purposes. Any publications 
making use of the data must acknowledge the authors and cite the publication accordingly.
 
- Jos� Gabriel Castillo <jcastil@espol.edu.ec>
- John Hamman <jhamman@fsu.edu>